I'm not extremely outgoing, but I'm average, I think. When people meet me they'll say, 'Oh you're not that shy...' I never said I was! I see where they're coming from because my biggest single was about being shy at a party - I get it. But it's not 100% accurate.

- Alessia Cara

In school I was painfully shy. But as soon as I had to get up in front of the class and give a book report, it was alarming - I'd suddenly be very articulate.

- Andrew Bird

I have never been shy about listening to the input of others and weighing it seriously.

- Alice Sebold

I think the last book I cried in was Patti Smith's 'Just Kids.' I don't shy away from crying, though. I actually really enjoy being moved like that.

- Albert Hammond, Jr.

I'm too shy for personal appearances, and I've found out that anytime I talk about my writing, I can't do any writing for many weeks afterward.

- Anne Tyler

When I meet people for the first time, I'm friendly but shy. I'm much less outwardly nervous than I used to be, but I still get anxious sometimes.

- Anne Hathaway

I'm a shy human being.

- Ang Lee

I am a shy person.

- Ang Lee

I was very quiet, very shy and docile.

- Ang Lee

My husband and I have known each other since kindergarten. I had a crush on him in school, but we never dated. Then we saw each other again after high school, and there was something instantly familiar about him. I'm a very shy person and was very closed off. But he allowed me to be myself. And there's a safety in that.

- Alison Sweeney

I used to be very shy. When I first started, I had to go to a casting, and I had to go in a bikini. I thought I was too skinny. But I went in and got the job! And that's how I started.

- Adriana Lima

I was too shy to do any vocal lessons or go to choirs; I just didn't want to be seen doing it. It's something that I kept to myself. I started easing into it, and I started doing talent shows, and YouTube really helped with that, too.

- Alessia Cara

As a young person, and I know it's hard to believe that I was shy, but you could take your camera, and it would take you to places: it was like having a friend, like having someone to go out with and look at the world. I would do things with a camera I wouldn't do normally if I was just by myself.

- Annie Leibovitz

I'm quite shy, so I hate seeing my private life splashed over the papers.

- Andrea Bocelli

For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended.

- Alice Walker

I'm so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.

- Al Pacino

My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.

- Al Pacino

All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be, I am a dancer. But I don't think I would be on 'Dancing with the Stars,' mainly because I would be too shy.

- Al Pacino

I've often said there's two kinds of actors. There's a more gregarious type and the shy type.

- Al Pacino

Don't try to be what you're not. If you're nervous, be nervous. If you're shy, be shy. It's cute.

- Adriana Lima